I’m considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?
Idk, i never gave aa fuck.
In general that might be a recipe for better living 99.9% of the time, yet for the paranoid it remains a hard art to master!
I wouldn’t join a private tracker that requires me to expose my real IP. It doesn’t sound serious at all.
Just use Usenet.
I guess you can say I’m a very old pirate when people shared ftps and call them pubs and downloading from bots on mirc kazzaa and emule. I never heard about usenet until I started using lemmy and since then it’s all I hear about lol. I tried to understand it but it feels very complex and cost money
Private trackers really aren’t masters of op sec. They thrive through security through obscurity which the worst kind of “security”. And generally even fail at that (PTP, BTN, RED, OPS are so widely known)
That said I use them and I also don’t use a VPN so I just take that risk. It’s up to you
IP2 definitely sounds intriguing as truly (or close to) anonymous peer to peer
I’ve never had one that required an interview, but my primary private tracker requires you to log into the webpage not on a VPN. They still suggest heavily that any torrenting is done on a VPN though.
If the owners of the site are competent, they’re gonna hash your IP for their logs and not store the actual IP. Hashing is a one-way process, they won’t be able to reconstruct your IP from it. If they’re storing your raw IP, probably stay away. (Honestly, you can’t do nearly as much damage with an IP address as people think, but it’d be a hint to way worse security practices elsewhere)
Thanks. Question is: how can one know the security practices behind the scenes? I guess it’s a matter of trust and luck after all!
